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1860-1890
GUSN-2827
The rug is of rectangular form, patterned with three sprays of roses and feathery, leaves in shades of red, rose, green, blue, beige and yellow on a varregated rose and medium blue ground. Bound with blue-lavendar cotton twill tape. The rose blossoms are raised with "Waldoboro" type petals.
rugs
burlap
hooking
floral patterns
rose (genus)
Burlap
Hooked
Waldoboro
Floral
Rose
Rug
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
30 1/4 x 58 1/4 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.1279
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